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NewsDogwoof boards UK rights and international sales for Sarah Gavron documentary
Village At The End of the World has its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival today.
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NewsMaria Hannah joins The Hive
Scottish post-production facility also appoints Emma Henderson as a runner.
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NewsWilder Films team up with Distrify for Up There
Fans will get their chance to pick where Zam Salim’s comedy premieres and where it screens in the UK.
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NewsCascade Media Development launches new screenwriting initiative
Up to 24 projects selected to pitch each month.
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NewsBFI's Ben Roberts promises 'open access' to funding during PFM keynote
Ben Roberts, Director of the BFI Film Fund, today promised far greater transparency in the way public funding decisions are made.
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NewsShorts from Milner, Guerrier brothers, Zamatov to screen at Aesthetica
Second edition of short film festival, which runs Nov 8-11, to feature shorts from over 25 countries.
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NewsBBFC appoints Patrick Swaffer president, wants wider classification of film downloads
Swaffer succeeds Sir Quentin Thomas who stepped down after ten years.
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NewsWhat Richard Did sells to UK, France, Australia, Scandinavia
EXCLUSIVE: Protagonist has done good business on Lenny Abrahamson’s Toronto and London drama, which has opened strongly in Ireland.
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NewsPower to the Pixel: Crowd-sourced Bards and 'now-thinking'
Yesterday’s Power To The Pixel Forum at the BFI Southbank featured addresses by leaders in the field of digital media, presenting think pieces and case studies about the art, technology and business of storytelling in the digital age.
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NewsDustin Hoffman breaks down at Bafta talk
Oscar-winner Dustin Hoffman broke down twice during an on-stage interview at Bafta as he discussed highlights of his career in cinema.
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NewsSky picks up Harry Potter films
All eight Harry Potter films have been added to Sky’s portfolio for three months over the crucial Christmas period.
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NewsTaken 2 retains top spot at the UK box office
UPDATE: Fox’s sequel records second straight week at number one; Sony’s Hotel Transylvania charts second with $2.8m (£1.7m), while eOne’s Looper adds $1.9m (£1.2m) for $12.2m (£7.6m) to date.
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NewsChristoph Waltz will play Gorbachev in Mike Newell's Reykjavik
HanWay films handling international sales and will launch at AFM.
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NewsFor No Good Reason to open London International Animation Festival
Charlie Paul’s biopic of British artist Ralph Steadman is one of three feature films showing at this year’s edition, which runs Oct 25-Nov 4.
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NewsTaken 2 delivers $45.1m int'l; Looper posts $109m; Impossible wows in Spain
UPDATE: EuropaCorp’s Liam Neeson thriller had too much in the tank for its competitors as distributor Fox International reported an estimated $134.8m running total after two weekends and $220.9m worldwide. Sci-fi Looper added $9m excluding China to cross the century mark after 17 days. And JA Bayona’s The Impossible [pictured] ...
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NewsRegent Street Cinema restoration moves forward after Heritage Lottery Fund grant
Currently the space is used as a lecture theatre but it will be reborn as a state-of-the-art modern cinema.
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NewsThe Reluctant Fundamentalist, Gangs of Wasseypur picked up by Mara Pictures
UK indie to distribute Mira Nair’s LFF title [pictured] and both parts of Anurag Kashyap’s gangster epic following negotiations initiated at this year’s Cannes.
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NewsTom Harper to direct Woman in Black follow-up
EXCLUSIVE: BAFTA-nominated Harper [pictured] will direct sequel to horror smash; plot to revolve around Eel Marsh House four decades after original, shoot likely next spring.
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NewsTitanic Studios expands by 42,000 sq ft
Belfast studio hub, currently hosting HBO’s Game of Thrones, launches £8.3m extension.
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NewsAltitude takes on sales for Son of a Gun starring Ewan McGregor
Jerrycan director Julius Avery to shoot film in early 2013.